October 31, 1981
Titan Black was playing outside in her backyard while her mum and stepfather cleaned up dinner. They had told her she couldn't go trick or treating this year, for safety reasons. Thus, she was looking forlornly over the fence, where she knew no one could see her. Her gray eyes shone with envy as she watched all the other kids go from house to house, wishing she could be out there too. Suddenly she heard her mum scream, loudly. It startled her so much she jumped and shrieked. She ran towards the back door of the house when suddenly the corner of the house that held her brother's room was blown apart.
Titan winced as bits of wall went wizzing past her. She decided that she could avoid any trouble if she went in through the front of the house. She had to find James, had to find her stepfather, once she found him, everything would be alright. She didn't have to search far before she stumbled upon his body. She knelt beside him, tears staining her cheeks as she shook him, telling him he needed to get up and save Mommy. Her tears fell on his face as she cried harder, realizing what it meant that his eyes stared through her, cold and lightless.
She knew not how long she sat there, staring at James, she more than likely would have sat there until someone came and found her if it hadn't been for the fact that her brother let out an exceptionally long and high pitched wail that snapped her out of her reverie. She jerked her head up. Harry was crying, and where Harry was, Mommy was sure to be! She stood and began making her way to her brother's room. And then she remembered the light and the explosion. But what if, the reason Harry was crying, was because Mommy...? She bolted for her brother's room at a dead run. "Mommy?!"
Titan came to a screeching halt when she reached the doorway of the room. In the far corner, there was a gaping hole, her brother lay in his crib, screaming for comfort, and half buried in the rubble lay Lily Potter's lifeless body. "MOMMY!!"
She flung herself upon her mother's body, her cries and sobs wracking her little frame. Titan lay there for some moments, until she had no more tears left. By now, Harry had stopped crying. She turned her head and looked out the hole and up at the sky, and searching, she whispered, "Please come save me, Daddy."
And in the silence that followed her request, she heard it. A strange strangling noise, like something was trying to hang on to life with everything it had left, which wasn't much. She stood and walked toward the noise, which seemed to be emanating from a pile of black robes on the floor. Titan kneeled and began sifting through the fabric. The first thing she came across was a white wand, and the next thing she laid her eyes on was the most pitiful looking creature she had ever seen.
What lay there could barely be called a creature, but it wasn't exactly human. It had a rather large head and small body, and great big slits for eyes, which held a slight reddish tint. A wave of lonliness washed over her, followed by a new emotion; protectiveness. This creature was alone, and so was she. Titan had lost James and her mother, and her father hadn't come, even when she'd asked him to. Her mind was set as to what she had to do.
She scooped the robes up, the creature along with them, clutching the wand in her hand, and with barely a backwards glance at her brother, whom she knew someone would save, she darted off into the night.